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__david__yesterday at 4:51 PM1 replyview on HN

That’s also not great if you’re trying to make a 10 gigabyte file. In that case, use bs=1M and count=SizeInMB.


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marcosdumayyesterday at 5:09 PM

Modern computers are crazily overengineered...

Most current desktops (smaller than your usual server) won't have any problem with the GP's command. Yours is still better, of course.